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The Grand Canyon State Katılım Mart 2024
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@ArseWombat @bigseb31213 You can't "eminent domain" water rights, that's just a taking and it's illegal.
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we could fix this overnight by charging farmers the market price for water, so they will no longer grow thirsty grass in the desert to send to Saudi Arabia as feed
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Virtually every fish in one of Arizona’s largest lakes has died after the reservoir fell to less than 1% of its capacity. This spring, the mountain snow that feeds the reservoir reached just 2% of its normal level. With almost no inflow, the lake shrank dramatically, the water overheated, oxygen levels collapsed, and nearly 100% of the fish suffocated. But drought wasn’t the only reason. Even as the reservoir was collapsing, water continued flowing downstream to supply farms under agreements written decades ago, when a snowpack collapse this severe was considered unthinkable. The ecosystem kept losing water while the climate that sustained it had already changed. The rules were built for a world that no longer exists. Climate change isn’t only testing ecosystems. It’s testing the systems we built to manage them. Before and after: San Carlos Reservoir, Arizona (2023 vs. 2026). [Source: NASA Earth Observatory, June 2026.]
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@Tcho76521726 @bigseb31213 Ok then take their property rights. Farmers shouldn’t be able to just decide to over-extract and fuck over an entire populous.
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@bigseb31213 You can't charge farmers market price for water without taking property rights from people
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@Elliott_Eldrich @IntellectEmbarg > cannot comprehend why anyone would ever want to shop there
Are you stupid? The reason people shop there is quite literally in the name.
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@IntellectEmbarg Convenience stores have the cheapest goods and they mark them up through the roof. Add to that the fact that they're mostly owned by Indians now, and I cannot comprehend why anyone would ever want to shop there.
"I am going to sell you crap for a fortune! Have a nice day!"
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And this isn't new either, people in the 80s and 90s knew this, it was even in the Simpsons. But rather than portraying Apu as a foreigner taking advantage of intellectually vulnerable people, his blatant disregard for his new community's wellbeing is just sort of a fun curiosity. And Homer is the real idiot for having allowed himself to be taken advantage of.
After Apu loses his job, the Simpsons let him stay with them and they fight for him to get rehired at the Kwik-E-Mart.
Stonetoss Comics@stonetoss
I've casually observed this in my own life. When entering an indian-run gas station, I'll start checking the expiry dates on the food I'm about to buy and find that it has (or is nearly) expired. I've seen this in everything from bagged chips to soda. I've heard second-hand from an employee that one of cost saving techniques is owners buying nearly expired inventory from other businesses (restaurants) and using them in the prepared foods. I've stopped visiting gas station with indians behind the counter.
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@Tcho76521726 @_fat_ugly_rat_ @sturmovikdragon Literally nothing. We’re overusing the water and will run out at this rate. We need to reduce water use in general, not use it for something else.
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ @sturmovikdragon Why is that a bad thing? What do you want to do with the southwest's water supply instead?
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It’s cool how telling farmers no one single time would fix this but for whatever reason we are absolutely committed to agriculture in the desert.
Oxygen@Oxygen_Token
Virtually every fish in one of Arizona’s largest lakes has died after the reservoir fell to less than 1% of its capacity. This spring, the mountain snow that feeds the reservoir reached just 2% of its normal level. With almost no inflow, the lake shrank dramatically, the water overheated, oxygen levels collapsed, and nearly 100% of the fish suffocated. But drought wasn’t the only reason. Even as the reservoir was collapsing, water continued flowing downstream to supply farms under agreements written decades ago, when a snowpack collapse this severe was considered unthinkable. The ecosystem kept losing water while the climate that sustained it had already changed. The rules were built for a world that no longer exists. Climate change isn’t only testing ecosystems. It’s testing the systems we built to manage them. Before and after: San Carlos Reservoir, Arizona (2023 vs. 2026). [Source: NASA Earth Observatory, June 2026.]
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@sturmovikdragon @_fat_ugly_rat_ Why are you assuming they don’t know why people farm in the desert? I’ve known why for years, still think it’s retarded and should be illegal.
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@_fat_ugly_rat_ Because its warm with lots of sunlight. If you gardened you would recognize how amazing that is compared to so much of the country where its only frost free between May and November and the fruit stop growing mid October cause no sun.
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@worldclassyuri @stupidtechtakes @Ragegaming2222 He’s just stating that it is generative AI, which it is. Nothing there expresses that it’s a bad thing lmao.
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@_codi @Civixplorer It just says “in the US” not “in is now the US” meaning you shouldn’t assume every year is based on modern borders.
Also Indians weren’t generally considered citizens of the US till 1924.
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@Civixplorer this maps talks about us population or English descendants. because i don't think that in 1790 there where no indians around what now is us, to change that center
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📍 Mean center of population in the US over the years.
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@codyqdev @stupidtechtakes @Ragegaming2222 if so, that means its harmless, because it uses the hosts ram
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@snailboy47 @stupidtechtakes Well yeah, if you’re using an AI model to generate something (such as Minecraft terrain) it’s generative AI.
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@stupidtechtakes Im confused did u just see the word “generation” and think of generative ai? uhh they said “world generation” bro
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@worldclassyuri @stupidtechtakes @Ragegaming2222 It quite literally does though. It uses a diffusion model to generate the terrain, the exact same type of AI that is used to generate images.
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@stupidtechtakes @Ragegaming2222 no, it uses geographical data gathered by actual ai models, it doesnt actually use ai to generate the world
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@YossarianSolo @StephenFleming Restrictions depend on the state. I lived in Texas during HS where you can’t drive more than one non-family member and there’s a curfew.
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@codyqdev @StephenFleming The irony is that the drivers who took drivers ed at 16 were found to be better drivers than those who waited until 18.
But yeah, the restrictions on 16 years old drivers, no driving friends for 6? months, only family members, etc...
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Yet another friend with a child turning 16 next week. Hasn’t gotten a learner’s permit. Zero interest in a driver’s license. I keep hearing this same story.
What’s WRONG with these kids?!?! On my 16th birthday, my mom took me out of school to take my driving test. Same for everyone I knew.
Even if you couldn’t afford your own car, you could beg the use of the family station wagon occasionally. Freedom. Independence. Heck, privacy on a date! Are these kids giving all that up for scrolling TikTok and an occasional Uber?
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@YossarianSolo @StephenFleming I was similar. I knew the requirements for getting your license at 18 were lower, and the license you get if you’re younger than 18 is rather restricted, so I kind of just waited till I was 18 lol. Got my full license in less than 2 weeks.
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@StephenFleming My oldest took the driving class. Didn't want to drive the 50 hours required (including 10 hours of night driving), stating he wasn't going to do it until there was a car for him in the driveway.
I said "Get familiar with the buses around here."
He did.
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@StephenFleming It’s easier to get your license at 18 so I just waited till then. Also, at least in Texas, the type of license you get when you’re a child is pretty restricted. You’re not allowed to have more than 1 passenger, there’s a curfew, exc.
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@Slatewolf1104 @ohlordnoNC Sonoran Desert is the best place to live according to this map, not the Mojave Desert.
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@ohlordnoNC That temp range is way off, Death Valley and the Mojave desert are the “best” places to live according to this
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I cannot fathom the mind of someone who finds the southwest more liveable than anywhere on the east coast. I would rather spend an eternity in hell than live in Phoenix
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Legitimately why does anybody tolerate the weather in the eastern US
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@2two10one5 @ohlordnoNC According to this map metro Phoenix has more comfortable days. Yuma County is the area with the most comfortable days. Mohave County doesn’t even seem to crack top 5 or maybe even top 10 on this map.
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@ohlordnoNC if lake fucking havasu is the singular spot on your entire map with the most days of “comfortable” weather, then your criteria for comfortable weather is seriously fucked up
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@JSkylynx @mikefaulkn41033 @ohlordnoNC Have you lived somewhere that’s humid? It’s actual hell. The monsoon season in Phoenix would be considered dry by most of the south.
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@mikefaulkn41033 @ohlordnoNC You act like monsoon season doesn't turn most of Arizona into a humid and sewer tree smelling hell for two months lol.
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@westtomeseta @mikefaulkn41033 @ohlordnoNC Sounds like either a skill issue or your city is more humid than you think.
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@mikefaulkn41033 @ohlordnoNC I live in a low humidity city and 100 degree temps are miserable. You spend your days indoors with AC on. Obviously better than 100 and high humidity but still, both are crap.
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why is there no option of "Everyone"? are people exposing that much info about themselves online that their discord account is *this* private?
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@codyqdev this is not a new issue and nothing actually changed when the feature was implemented. discord has always done this, making an "everyone" option useless. prior to today, you still could not see full profiles of people you didn't share a server with or didn't have added.
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